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Police say an adult aide and 2 children have died when 2 school buses collided on a Tennesse highway Tuesday. Another 27, mostly children, were injuried in the crash that left one of the buses on its side.

Hundreds of survivors¹ took to the streets in India Wednesday and marked the 30th anniversary of the Bhopal gas leak tragedy. Protesters demanded harsher punishments for those responsible and more compensation for the victims of the world's worse industrial disaster.

Japan launches a roceket Wednesday set for a 6-year journey to blow a crater² in a remote asteroid³. The goal of the space explorer, named Hayabasu-2, is to bring back rock samples in hopes of gathering⁴ clues to the origin of the earth.

Honduras sets a new Guinness World Record for the largest human Christmas tree. Nearly 3,000 people gathered outside the national palace to break it. The previous record was set by Argentina in 2013 with 1,900 people.

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1 survivors
幸存者，残存者，生还者( survivor的名词复数 )
参考例句：
The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。 survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者

2 crater
n.火山口，弹坑
参考例句：
With a telescope you can see the huge crater of Ve-suvius.用望远镜你能看到巨大的维苏威火山口。 They came to the lip of a dead crater.他们来到了一个死火山口。

3 asteroid
n.小行星；海盘车(动物)
参考例句：
Astronomers have yet to witness an asteroid impact with another planet.天文学家还没有目击过小行星撞击其它行星。 It's very unlikely that an asteroid will crash into Earth but the danger exists.小行星撞地球的可能性很小，但这样的危险还是存在的。

4 gathering
n.集会，聚会，聚集
参考例句：
He called on Mr. White to speak at the gathering.他请怀特先生在集会上讲话。 He is on the wing gathering material for his novels.他正忙于为他的小说收集资料。

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美联社新闻一分钟 AP 2014-12-07